ELearning Accessibility and Usability in Online Courses Brandon M Myers MS Session Objectives Explain the importance of ensuring that online instructional content is accessible Explain the difficulties that students with disabilities may encounter in online courses ID: 1032439
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1. Academic AffairsAcademic Operations and ResourcesE-LearningAccessibility and Usability in Online CoursesBrandon M. Myers, M.S.
2. Session ObjectivesExplain the importance of ensuring that online instructional content is accessible.Explain the difficulties that students with disabilities may encounter in online courses.Summarize Standard 8 (Accessibility and Usability) in the Quality Matters Rubric.Use a variety of strategies to ensure that online instructional content is accessible.
3. What Is Accessibility?“Accessibility is a pro-active approach to develop content and web pages that are accessible to persons with visual, hearing, or motor impairment challenges.”Quality Matters
4. Keeping Web Accessibility in Mindhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx7hdQqf8lE
5. What Are Accommodations?A reactive approach of providing alternatives to students, once a disability has been identified through the disability services office.The Americans with Disabilities Act makes institutions responsible for providing accommodations to students who identify themselves and make the requests. Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act states that we must not prevent access to resources for persons who are not otherwise qualified.
6. What is Web Access?According to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (http://www.w3.org/), web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, contribute, and interact with the Web. Their disability is not a barrier to interacting with the Web. It is estimated that about one fifth (20%) of the population or 54 million people have some kind of disability. Not all of these people have disabilities that make it difficult for them to access the Internet. The older the population, the more likely they are to have a disability.
7. What Is Universal Design?“Design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.” Center for Universal Design North Carolina State University
8. Examples of Universal DesignIn everyday lifeTraffic signs, elevator buttons, ATM machinesIn online coursesConsistent layout and labelsClear descriptionsFormatted text
9. Design GuidelinesThe accessibility of Canvas: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-2061 Other products we purchase for instructional purchases? Ask for their accessibility statement.Pearson: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-2061 McGraw-Hill:https://s3.amazonaws.com/StraighterLine/Docs/ADAWebAccessibilityTool_Kit_March2012.pdf Others?
10. Content Added on CanvasConsider Non-HTML contentWord documentsPowerPoint presentationsAnimationsVideosSpreadsheetsChartsImages
11. Assistive TechnologiesVisual Impairments (low vision, color blindness, blindness)
12. JAWS – A Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j2x2miPPDQ Braille Keyboard/Screen MagnifiersFLASH as a Web product is not recommended.
13. Color Blindness: Do not use color-coded content
14. LimitationsScreen Readers Emotions or voice intonationsImagesVisual LayoutNon-descriptive text (scanned pages)Chat toolsScreen Magnifiers
15. Assistive Technologies for Hearing ImpairedHearing aids and implantsText Telephones (TTYs) Captioning (closed / open)Instant Messaging (IM)Assistive Listening System (ALS)
16. Motor ImpairmentsLimited or absence of fine, or gross motor skills.Examples: carpel tunnel, arthritis, paraplegia, quadriplegia, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis.Consequences: limited or no use of input deices such as mouse and keyboard and easily fatigued.
17. How to support students who have motor impairments?Allow more time for tests and exams.
18. How to ensure that visually impaired students can use Word documents?Apply Heading StylesInsert a Table of Contents for lengthy documentsUse numbers instead of bulletsUse Sans Serif fontsAdd Alt Text to ImagesSave as a tagged PDF or HTMLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBvWPQugzo4
19. How to ensure that visually impaired students can use PowerPoint?Use the pre-defined slide layoutsCheck your presentation in the Outline view Use sans serif fontsAvoid blinking text or imagesAdd alt tags to images Convert PowerPoint to a Microsoft Word ® handout or to a Web Page in HTM
20. How to ensure that hearing impaired students can use all our instructional materials?Any audio and video files need to have captions.Captions are of two kinds: open (cannot be turned off)closed (can be turned off)NOTE: Students whose first language is NOT English benefit also from having closed captions.
21. Design RecommendationsContent ItemRecommendationsSyllabusUse heading stylesSave as a tagged PDFPrinted TextbookConsider e-text optionAsk publisher if it is Section 508 compliant Narrated LecturesPrepare a transcriptUse software for captioningLive chatCheck for accessible versions Consider asynchronous alternativesPodcastPost an alternative text formatUse software to transcribe
22. Thank you!Thanks to YOU, we can reach ALL STUDENTS!